Publication

This article provides an introduction to the special issue on Mapping Shia Muslim Communities in Europe...

This article focuses on reviewing green jobs from the Islamic perspective, and concepts and principles such as squander (israf), cleanliness (nizafah), waste (Iitlaf), no-harm (La zarar) and causation (Tasbib) are directly mentioned as a necessary condition for...

Insulting or disrespecting other religions and their sacred figures and places is a broad and significant subject in Shi‘a jurisprudence. The question often arises as to whether insulting sanctities is legally prohibited or...

This book puts forward a reinterpretation of early Islam as a movement strongly inflected with values of peacemaking that was reacting against the slaughter of the decades-long war and...

Ghadīr Khumm (Khumm Pond) was a pond, which no longer exists, located at Juḥfa, on the caravan route between Mecca and Medina...

Mara A. Leichtman, the writer of the book, offers an in-depth study of Shi‘i Islam in two very different communities in Senegal: the well-established Lebanese diaspora and Senegalese "converts" from Sunni to Shi‘i Islam of recent decades...

This book specifically focuses on the origins and early development of the modern Usuli movement, a period that roughly spans the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries...

In this authoritative biography, Muhammad Qasim Zaman offers a comprehensive and highly accessible account of Thanawi's multifaceted career and thought, whilst also providing a...

 The book “Gender, Governance and Islam” Analyses the links between gender and governance in contemporary Muslim majority countries and diaspora contexts. Following a period of rapid political change, both globally and in relation to the Middle East and South Asia, this collection sets new terms of reference for an analysis …

Waqf is a complex institution which has been employed by Muslims for over 1000 years to sustain various projects, ranging from private homes, cemeteries, libraries, mosques, schools, to...